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A road that collapsed, splitting a Cornish village in two on Christmas Day, should finally be repaired by the end of May. The Marines had to be called to Calstock to rescue stranded cars, and a shuttle service is still ferrying supplies to homes that were cut off.

Residents in Calstock in Cornwall are still waiting to hear when a road that collapsed on Christmas Day might get fixed. Five families are staying with friends after being evacuated from Commercial Road in Lower Kelley. The road collapsed after heavy rainfall.

Engineers are tonight trying to work out how to reconnect part of a village on the Devon and Cornwall border which has been cut off after a road collapse. It could be months before the road in Calstock is repaired.

Cars belonging to around twenty residents are stranded on one side of the massive landslip. In the west of Cornwall, a crewman from a river ferry was rescued by lifeboat after his boat was caught up in a fast flowing tide.